Tweetro+ now available for Windows 8 RT

We recently mentioned Tweetro, the new Windows 8 Twitter app for two reasons -- (1) we had a video tour at BUILD and (2) the app had to be pulled due to it being too popular. That latter part has to do with Twitter's new API changes and limits on how many people can use a third-party Twitter app. Needless to say, it's putting the crunch on Twitter devs. And it means they'll likely have to charge a pretty penny for their wares. Yes, Tweetro is back. But it'll cost you.

The developers behind Tweetro aka LazyWorm Apps (who also make MetroTube for your Windows Phone and yes, that's coming to Windows 8 too), have now released Tweetro+ with an introductory price of $9.99. It will jump to $12.99 in two-weeks, so you may want to get it now...

The question is, why pay for a Twitter app? Well, to be honest it is becoming necessary. Devs need to eat and Twitter is basically forcing their hand on this issue. If it makes you feel better, the most poplar Twitter app on OSX (Tweetbot) fetches for $20, so $9.99 is competitively price--relatively speaking. Of course even the popular MetroTwit has a Plus version that goes for $15.60 though there are cheaper alternatives out there, like Liquid Daffodil's Cowlick and glƏƏk! for Windows 8 which are both under $5 (and highly rated).

Personally, we like quite a few out there but we will say that Tweetro functions well and is quite stable on our Windows 8 tablet. If you like the company and their client, you'll have to decide if it's worth it. We're okay with it and as you can tell, we bought the app.

My Tweetro (non plus version) is still there for me on my Windows 8 machine, but it's not working. All I get are the spinning loading circles. I understand that the developer needed to make a new version, but did they really have to disable the old one? Or worse for you, uninstall it?

That right there does not make me want to tell friends about it... and to go with Rowi or MetroTwit instead. I installed Rowi and that works just fine.

Once again, it's Twitter at fault here, not the devs. The devs are only allowed 100,000 tokens max. In order to even have tokens available for Tweetro+, they had to pull their old ones. Blame Twitter and their greediness...

They have to price it like that to deliberately keep too many people from buying it, since they can only give out a limited number of tokens ever. There is no way for them to get more should they run out. Their only option is to price it prohibitively high and serve a niche audience. Eventually the other free apps are going to start disappearing as they run out of tokens too.

So let me see if I have this straight. $9.99 for the app x a limit of 100,000 downloads. That's $999,000. Can buy a few good meals with that. Or does Twitter get a cut. Don't think Twitter is that important to me that I would pay $10 for the privilege of viewing tweets on my Surface. Unless I can be guaranteed at least 5 years of stable, uninterrupted service. Don't like the way apps come and go from the Store without explanation. Hey, I was running Quicken 2000 on my new Win8 i7 desktop last week and it worked fine. Think I got my money's worth.

You're looking at it wrong. It's priced so that they will never, ever hit 100,000 as if they do the app is dead. If they charged $2 or $3 for the app and it hit the limit, what would they do? Support an app for the rest of their lives that can't gain any new users?

If developers were able to buy more tokens from twitter, they wouldn't need to so this. I just hope twitter come to their senses and change their current system.

Apps for tablets are generally more expensive so those of us with Surfaces kind of know that. $10 isn't alot of money but for someone like me who basically bought every twitter app on windowsphone I will probably skip this. Point your rage at twitter.

RE: TweeTRO+ and pricing: The free Twitter apps in the Windows 8 Store are worth their price, and the paid Twitter apps are worth theirs. Pricing is always subjective and developers just "guess" at a reasonable cost, based on what they know. TweeTRO+, although not my personal choice, is WAY better than any of the free apps, and most folks will never miss the few extra dollars to support good developers, and the folks at Lazy Worm do great work.
By supporting good developers (meaning paying a few extra dollars, working with support instead of just leaving crappy reviews, etc.) ultimately will greatly benefit the USERS. The idea situation is to have a Store with far fewer apps, but of good to great quality. This can't happen unless users stop thinking a Red Bull is worth the money, but not a decent app.
RE: Twitter: Twitter really is the problem. This sounds over-simplified, but it's the truth. Twitter has "used" developers for years to increase the popularity of their product, and is now alienating them for various reasons. Twitter no longer sees developers as "partners". Since Twitter is a business, they're allowed to do this, but ultimately this is "bad business", and without developer support, no software product, operating system, or technology initiative can succeed.
Summary: If you can afford it, by TweeTRO+. If you need to have "5 years" of service for $10, you need to re-evaluate your system of values. If there are other apps you like, buy them. If you want to see improvements, email the developers and work with them. Good ones will give you what they want. Bad ones will go away. Everyone will win.
I'm bored of listening to me now. :)

Go in the Windows 8 store. Some games are 9.99 and now this app as well. iOS apps are great. Awesome games for the iPad at awesome retina display... And their like 6.99 apps. Just saying. Not trolling. I'm windows all the way. Bit they have to lower their prices if they want people to switch over.

All the apps you are referring to are not limited to a maximum of 50,000 sales... Tweetro+ is an 'exclusive' app due to Twitter's restrictions and is priced accordingly so that we can afford to continue supporting it.
If we were not restricted, we'd still be giving the app away for free.

so, quick question ... as with the original installation of tweetro, the freebie ... it reached it's 50k or 100k limit ... it got pulled from the store, and for someone who has a "stamp" on their account, who downloaded it while it was still under the limit and free, it's either uninstalled or no longer functional, and thus can't be installed again on a NEW device, logging in with the same credentials ... finally to my question (sorry) ... if a user were to buy the PLUS version and say 2 years down the road, after tweetro HAS reached that 50k or 100k limit, would that user who bought it day one be able to download and install on a NEW device in the future?

thanks for the quick response ... i read the FAQs ... and although both of my questions were answered, what about both of them together :)

you say if you reach the token limit you will no longer be able to distribute it, however existing costumers will be able to continue to use it. if you can no longer distribute, will it be available for download at a later date if a current token holder needs to install it again on a rebuilt computer or new tablet, etc?

Lets face it, twitter is something that most of us use everyday, and we pay way more for things that we use a lot less and nobody is complaining about that.
I think a good developer can price its apps as high as he wants, it is his job. Im sure no one wants to sell their work for a cheap price... am i wrong???
And this is about quality apps, support and the best of a plataform, you get updates after pay for it, so no problem for me here.

Allowing the previous app to run alongside the new one uses up limited amount of tokens which they could not afford to happen. Due to Twitter limitations on tokens allowed to 3rd party apps it would have meant the devs could not have afforded to support & develop the app. Check the Internet for a more detailed explanation. I for one am happy to support the devs as they are very talented & will make Tweetro a top notch product. Check out MetroTube on Windowsphone if you have not already. This is the kind of talent Windowsphone & Windows need to attract, so dig deep & keep them motivated.

I've read about what Twitter did, and my experience with MetroTube says to me that LazyWorm Apps could charge £5'000 for it and it would be worth it. No, I'm serious. I prefer to use the web client on my desktop but the problem is what will Microsoft do since Windows Phone is picking up? They're gonna run out of tokens too!